Jonáš Richter (*1983) studied photography at the Silesian University in Opava (BcA.), in Jiří Thýn's studio at Scholastica, at Goldsmiths University in London (Erasmus exchange), and is a graduate of the sculpture studio at UMPRUM in Prague (MgA). He is currently continuing his Ph.D. studies here with a project dealing with the human voice. His works deal with language and the limits of communication in relation to technology. He creates sound installations, often works with the medium of photography and moving image. He participated in group exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad. Together with Ruta Putramentaite and Denisa Langrová, he created Cooperative Life Choir, which works in performative workshops with the emotional charge of collective singing and its ability to create a shared space together. He curated the Output sound gallery and participated in many collaborations with the sound component of other artists' exhibitions. He is also dedicated to his own music creation, in the last fifteen years mainly in the project called Richter & son.
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Affective Impact of the Human Voice in Contemporary Art
The voice and listening are necessarily dialectical and intersubjective. They are an act of tuning in, openness, and empathy. The project explores the complex relationship between the content of speech and the affective tone of communication, not only through the perception of the viewer/listener, but also through the position and emotions of the delegated performers. They are not neutral and their standpoint is further analyzed in terms of theories of embodiment and situatedness knowledge.
The focus of the project based on recording studio practice - in the conception and production of artworks that work with the human voice moving in the schism point of human speech: using the tension between the content of words and the emotions of the speech independent of the words. Seeking clashes between linear narrative and the continuity of impression, critical analysis and being carried away by feelings, language structures and the weight of the voice.
The goal is to consciously observe and capture what happens on the axis of the process of input (text, script), voice (performance, embodied), recording (remediation, disembodied) and output (reproduction, gallery situation).
